by Perry Brass ~
In the last quarter of the 21st century, Jeffrey Cooper, an Alabama-raised, executive design star living in Americanized Germany, has made a Faustian pact with the global economic system running the world. No matter what age he is, the system will secretly keep him young and razor-sharp, as long as he can stay on top of his job and keep profits high. But Cooper has a problem: work stress and the congested, hyper-competitive life around him is killing him. Can he keep his stress level a secret from the system itself, his co-workers, and even his own seductive male German therapist who has told him that when all else fails there are "angels" in the world who can save him, and often we don't know who they are? But one, in the most violent form, will appear in Jeffrey's life. At first, he seems to be the Devil himself, offering every kind of excitement, even offering Jeffrey back his own lost soul-but will this younger, extremely mysterious and attractive man end up killing Jeffrey, or saving him? Carnal Sacraments is a parable of our time and the future, of the all-swallowing global economy, of an emerging international business culture based on war, and of intense sexuality as a key to religious experience and personal salvation. "The most unusual novel I've read in years," Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco.